Among the pamphleteers for the Parliament side in the English Civil War, Mary Cary stands out, not only for productivity but for her literary style, her sinewy argument, and her attention to setting the anti-monarchist party on the broadest possible base.

Milestones

About 1621 MC was born.

13 April 1649 A tract entitled The Account Audited attacked MC for lack of learning, and alleged flaws in her Resurrection of the Witnesses.

14 November 1653 MC published a second, amended and expanded, edition of her tract The Resurrection of the Witnesses.

After 1653 The date of MC's death (some time after her last publication) is not known.